Jack Bog's Blog

• Future to the back

  Economists, ya gotta love 'em. "That suggests the recession will likely end sometime in the third or fourth quarter of 2009, he said." Nothing like "predicting" the third quarter, five weeks after it's over. I predict that the Yankees will make it to the World Series. ' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:49pm EST
  

• Primed for disappointment

  Tri-Met's dismantling of urban core "frequent" bus service draws a big question mark here. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:09pm EST
  

• Green, (cough) sustainable (cough) Portland

  Tenth most toxic area in the land, second worst in the West only to Los Angeles. [Via the O.] [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:27pm EST
  

• Saltzman calls for discipline in Chasse case

  After three years of stonewalling, the City of Portland is actually proposing that the two officers involved in the senseless killing of James Chasse be suspended for a couple of weeks. Apparently the reason is going to be failing to get him to the hospital, not for literally [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• Catchphrase of the day

  "Hotlips Pizza in Portland, Ore., where sustainability is second only to extra cheese." [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:07am EST
  

• Such a deal

  Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first retirement under the Social Security pension system. It was a woman named Ida May Fuller, and she filed her claim in Rutland, Vermont. She got her first check a few months later, for $22.54. The new system worked out pretty well [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:35am EST
  

• Try a book on tape

  They'll sure be crowing on conservative talk radio today. "One-term President," "worm has turned," "mandate," yada yada yada. I will say, though: It's become apparent that last year, many people in the middle were voting against George Bush more than they were voting for the Democratic Party. And if Obama' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:51am EST
  

• Credit union deposit insurance still taking a beating

  In performing our quarterly checkup of the financials of OnPoint Community Credit Union -- a Portland institution that we watch as a gauge of the local economy -- we picked up on some news that shows the disturbing state of money institutions nationwide: On OnPoint's third quarter profit [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:45am EST